BACKGROUND With the emergence of macrolide resistance, concerns about the efficacy of macrolides for the treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) pneumonia in children have been raised. This study aimed to determine the effect of macrolide resistance on the outcome of children who were hospitalized with MP pneumonia. METHODS Between 2010 and 2015, we performed culture of MP from nasopharyngeal...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Whether misery perfusion (MP) commonly accompanies brain borderzones (BZs) in patients with major cerebral artery occlusion remains unclear. We elucidated topographic patterns of chronic hemodynamic failure in such patients. METHODS Twenty-four patients with unilateral occlusion or severe stenosis (>75% in diameter) of the internal carotid artery (ICA) or middle cerebra...

Purpose: To assess whether multiparametric fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (MP FDG PET-MRI) using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), three-dimensional protonMRspectroscopic imaging (3DH-MRSI), and FDG-PET enables an improved differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors. Experimental Design: Seventy...

Background and Aims: Scaphoid fractures are the most common fractures of the wrist. This study compared the outcomes of two surgical internal fixation techniques, using either Herbert screws (HS group) or multiple pins (MP group), in the treatment of scaphoid fractures. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 41 patients (23 in HS and 18 in MP groups) with unilateral scaphoid fract...

The vascular tissues of flowering plants form networks of interconnected cells throughout the plant body. The molecular mechanisms directing the routes of vascular strands and ensuring tissue continuity within the vascular system are not known, but are likely to depend on general cues directing plant cell orientation along the apical-basal axis. Mutations in the Arabidopsis gene MONOPTEROS (MP)...

We consider T f = ∫ x1 0 ∫ x2 0 f (t1, t2)dt1dt2 and a corresponding geometric mean operator G f = exp(1/x1x2) ∫ x1 0 ∫ x2 0 log f (t1, t2)dt1dt2. E. T. Sawyer showed that the Hardy-type inequality ‖T f ‖Lq u ≤ C‖ f ‖Lp v could be characterized by three independent conditions on the weights. We give a simple proof of the fact that if the weight v is of product type, then in fact only one condit...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate intestinal mucosal cystine crystal (CC) load as a way to estimate tissue cystine content in children with cystinosis. STUDY DESIGN Intestinal mucosal biopsies were obtained endoscopically from children (ages 2-18 years) with cystinosis. Using a special processing technique, CC within histiocytes were easily visible and enumerable in the mucosal tissue. Mean CC counts, c...

Variants of max-product (MP) belief propagation effectively find modes of many complex graphical models, but are limited to discrete distributions. Diverse particle max-product (D-PMP) robustly approximates max-product updates in continuous MRFs using stochastically sampled particles, but previous work was specialized to treestructured models. Motivated by the challenging problem of protein sid...